Amazon India Senior Vice-President and Country Head Amit Agarwal has been named as the new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) on Tuesday. He succeeds former Google India MD Rajan Anandan.

The Madras High Court on April 3, 2019, had directed the Centre to ban TikTok, saying it was evident from media reports that pornography and inappropriate content were made available through such mobile applications.

Indian B2B digital services market, which is currently pegged at USD 5.6 billion is expected to reach USD ~29 billion by 2023, growing at CAGR of 39%, a report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IndiaMart said on Thursday.

The Internet services sector in India has potential to grow over three-folds to $124 billion with the help of favourable government policies and infrastructure improvement, a report by industry body IAMAI said Tuesday.

National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP) 2018 has set articulated futuristic goals and has undertaken crucial policy initiatives to address the problem of access, Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said in a statement on Thursday.

Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), an industry body which represents both domestic and global internet companies, and Nasscom, which represents the IT sector, have criticised the government’s draft data protection bill, citing significant impact on startups

The industry body also pointed out that the Sri Krishna Committee (which is working on a detailed data protection framework for the country) under the IT Ministry -- the nodal body for apps and handset manufacturers -- is already looking into the issue of consent.

The number of Internet users in the country is expected to reach 500 million by June 2018, a joint survey by IMAI-Kantar IMRB showed. India was estimated to have 481 million Internet users in December 2017, a growth of 11.34 per cent over December 2016 figures.

Google India Managing Director and Vice-President(South East Asia), Rajan Anandan will inaugurate the Incubation Centre on February 7 in an area of 12,500 sq ft at the Cyberpark Centre building, a release from the Cyberpark said today.

The government will look at positioning the telecom sector primarily as an enabler to boost the economy rather than a revenue earner under the new National Telecom Policy (NTP), a senior government official said today.

After PSU banks, the government is likely to infuse capital in two chronically ill telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL, and the Union Cabinet is likely to take a decision on 4G spectrum allocation to them by the third week of the current month after DoT places the note before it for consideration.

At a high-level meeting at the PMO late Tuesday, it was also decided that the two telcos will frame a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to reduce their employee strength, which will be followed by a reduction in the retirement age to 58.